When I arrived in India, every day there was healings.

There were people being healed of cancer, broken limbs, and they had no money.

And every day they would pray that the Lord would provide and maybe after an hour and a half,

the leader would just say, okay, the Lord's answered our prayer and I'd look around and go,

how? And he said, no no he's told us and the post

would arrive and masses of money would be in it and and it was incredible but it was it was such a

shock because I'd only really until that point I'd assented to truth but without realizing

that encounter was supposed to be a part of our walk with the Lord.

Welcome, everybody. This is Simon Gilbo with Inspired. Great to be back for another fantastic

week of encouragement as we meet another one of my mates who's done beautiful stuff. If you're

new to Inspired, it's all about meeting people who've had all sorts of different life experiences,

who might have been through some tough time, sucker punches, but you know, God is always still on his throne.

And we need to be encouraged in our faith because we are relentlessly bombarded by just an endless stream of negativity in the press

that inducese fear and cynicism and depression,

anxiety and actually we need to feed ourselves good stuff.

So we're going to be inspired. I've no doubt this week because we got with us an old friend, Simon.

How are you, Simon?

I'm very well. Thank you very much. How are you?

Yeah, good. It's good to have you, buddy. We're only calling you Simon

this podcast because we are trying to protect your identity because you've spent 20 years in China.

Simon and I met at All Nations Christian College in Ware in Hertfordshire, 90, no, 20 years ago. And we were really tight back then. And then it's almost like, it's funny,

I saw a YouTube clip of a tiger in a river slowly casing a duck. And the duck suddenly

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